That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives.
The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilisation, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every superstar, every supreme leader, every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there -- on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam. 
-- Carl Sagan
I hope not one of our young Australian men take a leaf out of his book. Not one. 
[front page of today's Sydney Daily Telegraph]
After watching a violent cartoon, my little niece abruptly asked her grandmother how she wants to die. “Like the sunset,” her grandmother replied. 
Beware the lollipop of mediocrity.
Lick it once and you'll suck forever.
Nobody means to get carried away in mediocrity, but it happens, it happens unless you think about everything you do, unless you make every choice the best one you know how to make.
-- Richard Bach
My plans for 2011 are:
-- to turn fear into excitement
-- to turn worry into wonder
-- to turn expectation into anticipation
-- to turn disappointment into detachment
-- to turn enragement into engagement
-- to turn judgment into observation
